Quotes about Brain

I knew well enough that one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.

There's a cardinal rule in book publishing that applies equally to brain surgery and auto mechanics: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Since people are still buying the original Where Is God When It Hurts?

senseless. I prefer the word "buzzed," following the brain/amplifier analogy.

His understanding of the method by which organisms become first individualised and then personalised gave him a number of valuable insights. Basically, the process depends on cephalisation — the differentiation of a head as the dominant guiding region of the body, forwardly directed, and containing the main sense-organs providing information about the outer world and also the main organ of co-ordination or brain.

The more simple and predictable the communication, the easier it is for the brain to digest. Story helps because it is a sense-making mechanism.

Why? Because the human brain, no matter what region of the world it comes from, is drawn toward clarity and away from confusion.

In fact our brains respond so similarly to rejection and physical pain that Tylenol reduces the emotional pain rejection elicits.

Our brains are organized by narrative and image.

It's a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs.

Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy, perhaps.

I am not going to guess, at five o'clock in the morning, with my brains frying and sputtering in my head. If you want me to guess, you must ask me to dinner.